2007 Annual Outstanding Physician and Citizen Awards, Presidential Award and Outstanding Student Award
Awards and Recipients
Nicholas P. Krikes, M.D. Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Medical Society
This award is given for sustained interest and participation in one or more activities of the Society over and above that expected by the membership at large.William L. Cover, M.D. Award for Outstanding Contribution to Medicine
This award is bestowed upon a physician member who has displayed forward-looking, pioneering ideas, enterprise, enthusiasm and prolonged professional stature and abilities.Merlin A. Hendrickson, M.D. Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Community
This award is given to the outstanding member who has displayed sustained interest and participation in one or more community activities over and above that expected of the membership at large.Outstanding Citizen Award
This award is presented to a lay person who has:
- exhibited sustained interest and participation in one or more medically related activities which has benefited the members of the community, and/or
- who has demonstrated outstanding devotion to community work, and/or
- who has devoted a career of service to the Inland Empire.
SBCMS Presidential Award
The Presidential Award is granted to an individual selected by the president, who exhibits exemplary character and commitment to the mission and purpose of the Medical Society, with unique abilities to transition impossible ideas into reality, while rising to new levels of creativity and innovation.Dr. Manmohan Nayyar is the first recipient of the SBCMS Presidential Award. He was honored for his key role in expanding membership by demonstrating the value of organized medicine, his political involvement, his active encouragement of research in neurology, his support of and contributions to Victor Valley Community Hospital and its Foundation, and his selfless concern for the citizens of his community.
Outstanding Student Award
Aimee Hechanova, a member of Loma Linda University School of Medicine's Class of 2009, received the Outstanding Student Award. Serving as the membership chair and liaison between the Loma Linda AMA/CMA/SBCMS student chapter and the SBCMS membership director, in 2006/2007 Ms. Hechanova worked tirelessly on her own time recruiting 54 new student members from all class levels to the county, state and national levels of organized medicine. Ms. Hechanova was one of 22 students who participated in this year's CMA Legislative Day.
